The Chinese Radical: 月


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Meaning
moon, month    月

Explanation When it is at the left in the character then often with the meaning "body part". If at the right, then as "moon, month, period".

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
front, ahead, before, first, former
qián
Top: a part 䒑 of the head/horns of a sheep , bottom: meat /, knife, cut
The horns and the flesh are cut (beginning) at the front position.
JLPT HSK 1
bright, clear, to understand
míng
A combination of sun and moon
Both sun and moon shine bright.
JLPT HSK 1
moon, month
yuè
The radical means moon or month. (The hanzi for meat/flesh as a radical is typically simplified to this )
Image of an ascending moon
JLPT HSK 1
a period of time, phase

Left: image of a grain shovel/scoop (tool for threshing) , that is used for throwing up the grain rhythmically [thus used in period 期] to separate the corn from the husk), right: moon/month
Grain scoops and the moon are only seen: periodically.
JLPT HSK 2
Moon, cloudy, shady, rearside, Yin of (Yin:阴/Yang:阳)
yīn
Left: hill (If this radical: is at the left of a character it means 'hill', otherwise it means 'village'), right: moon
The hill is on its "moon-side" shady, thus the: Yin.
JLPT HSK 4
to guess, assume, conjecture
cāi
Left: wild animal (dog on the hind legs), right: green/blue (Growing plants appear in the moonshine blue and young.)
When a wild animal appears like a plant in the moonshine, one only can guess (what it is).
JLPT HSK 4
key
yào, yuè
Left: metal 钅(=), right: moon (here: image of a key, where the 3 horizontal lines are coding bits)
He is made of metal and has a coding: the key.
JLPT HSK 5
government, morning, audience, pilgrimage
cháo, zhāo
Left: sunrise (The sun rises between plants .) [Sunset is: ], right: moon
At sunrise, when the moon is still there, it is the morning [zhāo] and I make a pilgrimage to the government [cháo].
JLPT HSK 5
clear, bright, optimistic
lǎng
Left: variation of good , right: moon
The good old moon is clear and optimistic.
JLPT HSK 6
tyrant, hegemon, to rule by force, to usurp

Top: rain , below: leather (Horned 廿 animals have a skin of leather; but here: animals in general.), moon
He controls the rain, the animals and the moon: The tyrant!
JLPT HSK 6
oath, pledge, union, to ally, league
méng
Top: bright/clear 明 (sun , moon ), below: bowl/plate
On a bright plate, it is presented: the oath of pledge.
JLPT HSK 6
to gnaw, to nibble, to bite
kěn
Left: mouth , right: to agree 肯 (Stop that body if you agree.)
The mouth stops only, when from the body (everything) is: gnawed.
JLPT no HSK
shade
yìn
Top: grass , bottom: moon, rearside, Yin 阴 (The hill is on its "moon-side" shady, thus the: Yin)
Only grass can grow at the "moon"-side of the hill: in the shade.
JLPT no HSK
marrow (spinal or plant's stem), essence, pith
suǐ
Left: sceleton , right: 遀 (movement , part of lazy [I feel , that the left [half] of my body is lazy])
The sceleton has during movement sth. lazy: The marrow.
JLPT no HSK
hazy, deceive, indistinct
méng
Left: moon, body , right: to deceive, cheat (Under the plants and under the cover there shall be a/one pig ? You deceiver!)
The moon light can be deceiving, because it hazy.
JLPT no HSK
hazy moonlight, hazy, unclear
lóng
Left: body , right: dragon (The outstanding person / has a broken leg with a dragon )
His body appeared like a dragon in the hazy moonlight.
JLPT no HSK
shed, canopy, shack
péng
Left: tree , right: friends (Two bodies / next to each other are friends.)
This tree will be within two months: a shed.
JLPT no HSK
new moon, beginning, first day of lunar month
shuò
Left: disobedient (A plant's shoot that grows crooked is disobedient.), right: moon
If the 'disobedient' moon does not shine, it is new moon.
婿
JLPT no HSK
son-in-law

Left: woman , right: (var. of correct/proper , body )
The woman wants a "proper body" as son-in-law.

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